Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds

Bird migration is the world's only true unifying natural phenomenon, stitching the continents together in a way that even the great weather systems fail to do. Scott Weidensaul follows awesome kettles of hawks over the mexican coastal plains, bar-tailed godwits that hitchhike on gale winds 7,000 miles nonstop across the pacific from alaska to new zealand, and myriad songbirds whose numbers have dwindled so dramatically in recent decades.

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